Global Oligarchs at Work

Glad to see Japanese people pushing back against this garbage, but I still see some assuming that Nike has good intentions with this.

They don't. This type of victim worship makes people hate their national identity, which is why the Globalist corporate types love it. https://t.co/0v2GljZrsi

— 地獄ケーキ🍰🇺🇸🚞 (@JigokuCake) November 30, 2020

Meanwhile...

After 20M plus simulations, the authors found that the same basic answer kept coming back: The more diverse or integrated a neighborhood is, the less socially cohesive it becomes, while the more homogenous or segregated it is, the more socially cohesive.https://t.co/QjABWId7xj

— Jill 🎄 (@JillColtonFree) December 2, 2020

The Axis of Wokeness

Big business and the far left have formed an Axis of Wokeness in opposition to the American right. After years of serving as useful idiots to multinational corporations, the right has no longer any reason to support globalism.

Bradley Betters writes: https://t.co/wuYS9X77oW

— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) September 1, 2020

"Defending the practices of liberty is in part about cultivating certain norms and intellectual principles. But the concrete structures of power within a society also matter." https://t.co/EnngyMLGOZ

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) September 2, 2020

The Network State

Salon #17: Cognitive Conquest and Thinking the Unthinkable https://t.co/WyeWQSLf9h

— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) August 14, 2020

Axis of Easy Salon #17

An Ineffective Bureaucratic Solution

Harvard sociologist studies diversity trainings at 800 companies over 30 years. Conclusion: "A company is better off doing nothing than mandatory diversity training."https://t.co/dRC1zm5CC0

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 6, 2020

Planet of the Humans

A review: The Bizarre Blindspot in “Planet of the Humans” by Craig Collins

What's behind the promotion of remdesivir? Big Pharma?

Peak Prosperity

Netflix's Free Propaganda

They couldn't get paying subscribers to watch this so they've made it available online for free? Or they think they're doing Americans a service by making it available.

Jack Rasmus on the "Free" Market

Jack Rasmus "On Market Solutions to the COVID-19 Crisis" (via PCR)

PCR's gloss: "Neoliberal Globalists and Free Market Libertarians Have Become Threats To Life—The Former Are In Service To Capitalist Greed and the Latter Are In Service To An Ideology"

Citi Doubles Down

Lincoln and Corporatocracy

Lincoln, Crony Capitalism, and Populism by Norman Black

Interview with the Economic Hit Man, John Perkins

VD links to the ZeroHedge interview.

book website
Yes Magazine

The Olympics: In Whose Economic Interest?

The corporations who advertise through commercials and product placement?

Counterpunch: Olympic Beats and the Soundtracks of Solipsism by David Yearsley

Jefferson

A consistent liberal?


The Chaos of a Hillary Clinton Presidency: Corporate Dominion and Open Rebellion by Richard W. Behan

Reform is neither difficult nor unprecedented. Our history displays a number of means of subordinating corporate interests to the welfare of the American people. More than a century ago—in the “Gilded Age”—the nation faced a similar crisis and dealt with it successfully. And a century before that, effective mechanisms were in place to restrain corporate dominion, even though the threat of it was already visible.

This is what Thomas Jefferson said about the issue: “I hope we shall crush… in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

Note Jefferson’s concern was merely prospective, wary of potential. Corporate enterprise was not yet dominant, only pushing to be. At the time, corporations were very strongly circumscribed, to assure their subservience to public well-being. Perhaps Jefferson feared they would escape the control mechanisms early corporations faced:

*they were chartered for a limited period of time, typically twenty years

*they were chartered for a single specific purpose, say to construct a toll road

*the charter could be revoked if the corporation’s behavior violated public interests

*stockholders, directors, and officers of the corporation were personally responsible for the corporation’s obligations or transgressions

* a corporation could not buy or otherwise merge with another corporation

Mr. Jefferson’s fears were realized.

As the 1800’s progressed corporations in America—particularly the great railroads—fought vigorously and successfully to have these constraints relaxed, and all of them were. The corporate structure escaped any meaningful public control.

Eventually corporations could grow without limit by absorbing others; they could live in perpetuity; they could undertake multiple tasks and change them at will. Personal liability was limited to a pittance, and charter revocation virtually disappeared. Then, in 1866, corporations as artificial persons became legal persons: the Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad extended the rights of U.S. citizenship to corporate entities. They were granted equal protection under the law, their rights protected by the U.S. Constitution. (The grant of legal personhood, Thom Hartmann discovered, was technically illegal, but it has endured. See his book, Unequal Protection.)

Michael Hudson with Gordon Long

The Wall Street Economy Has Taken Over the Real Economy and Is Draining It! (Counterpunch)

John Michael Greer: The End of Ordinary Politics

"What happened was that corporate interests in this country, aided and abetted by a bipartisan consensus in government and cheered on by the great majority of the salary class, stripped the US economy of living wage jobs by offshoring most of America’s industrial economy, on the one hand, and flooding the domestic job market with millions of legal and illegal immigrants on the other."

Related:
Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Hedge Funds are Part of a Tricky Money Maneuver to Put Hillary in the White House
Mike Whitney, The “Gig Economy”; Another Vicious Attack on Ordinary Working Slobs

The Lies of Neoliberal Economics (or How America Became a Nation of Sharecroppers) by Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges

The Big Short

Bale. Carell. Gosling. Pitt. WATCH the new trailer for The Big Short. In theatres December

Posted by The Big Short on Monday, November 23, 2015

Saw it tonight; entertaining and educational and it seemed to give an accurate understanding of at least one of the problems behind the crash of 07. How many viewers have become Bernie Sanders voters? I should read the book...

The Big Short — The Sequel, Coming to a Neighborhood Near You
The Big Short's Michael Burry on the Crash



Why Michael Lewis says Adam McKay gets the Wall Street meltdown right in 'The Big Short'
Even Michael Lewis Was Surprised Hollywood Bet on The Big Short
The Atlantic
Jeffrey A. Tucker's review of the movie

Just Providing What the Client Wants

Is there a marketing department of any major corporation that is not SJW in the name of pandering to the customer and appealing to all identities?



Mini has just made itself a brand for homonormativity, much like Apple?

Coca Cola: Why Corporations are Our Enemies

There is a Coke commercisl featuring a mom giving her young son some cokes so he can use them as an icebreaker to talk to a young girl at a dance. It played before a movie last month; I can't find it online, so I don't know how old it is. Where's the father to tell his son to man up or gie him some age-appropriate advice? nowhere to be seen. Instead, the boy is taught to offer the girl a drink. How beta is that?
And moms can feel like they can take dad's by purchasing a product for their sons to use, rather than giving him the proper guidance. What a joke.

And then there's its #MakeItHappy campaign...


Looking at the channel and its advertising in different languages, Coca Cola Global is spreading "sweet American goodness" around the world and the modern distorted notion of Christmas, focused exclusively on family. (And of course none of the Spanish commercials feature non-whites.)

Issues of That Should Be of Concern to Anyone, Right or Left

Counterpunch: Poisoned Food, Poisoned Agriculture: Getting off the Chemical Treadmill
The Future is Local: The Future is not Monsanto